The Allied campaign to free Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany, from the D-Day landings at Normandy to the final victory in Berlin, marks one of history's greatest military offensives. The Allies overcame initial setbacks to inflict a devastating defeat on Hitler's divisions in France—a triumph that was threatened just months later in the bitter winter fighting of the Battle of the Bulge, before the Allies' final crossing of the Rhine River and their advance into Germany. Illustrated with large black and white photos on virtually every two-page spread, this book dramatically tells the story with the words of the soldiers and civilians of both sides who witnessed it.